never expected the Yaluo incident, one of the fuses of the Second Opium War, to break out suddenly, and while thinking about how to deal with it, the wolf-hearted Wu Chaoyue also began to worry about the safety of his cheap father Wu Xiaoping, and worried about whether Wu Xiaoping would suffer any harm in the Guangzhou Discharge Incident - after all, Wu Chaoyue's current body was given by Wu Xiaoping and his wife. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Also, before Wu Xiaoping passed on all the family property to himself, Wu Chaoyue must not allow any accidents to happen to his cheap father.

Worried about uselessness, far away from thousands of mountains and rivers, and the Taiping army blocking the way, Wu Chaoyue didn't say that he rushed back to Guangzhou to save his cheap father, but he wanted to know that his current situation was even more difficult. However, fortunately, the disobedient and unfilial Wu Chaoyue usually doesn't care much about the cheap father and the cheap old lady, but Wu Xiaoping and his wife have always remembered Wu Chaoyue, the rebel. A few days later, just as Wu Chaoyue was digging holes in the mountains to listen to the news of Guangzhou, an old family member from Xiangshan's hometown suddenly came to the Hubei provincial capital, not only bringing Wu Chaoyue Wu Xiaoping's handwritten letter to report safety, but also bringing Wu Chaoyue first-hand on-site news of the Yarrow incident.

After reading the cheap father's handwritten letter and listening to the introduction of the old family, Wu Chaoyue finally had a detailed understanding of the Yarrow incident. It turned out that in October last year, the Qing Navy division in Guangzhou discovered that a merchant ship registered in Hong Kong, the Yarrow, was suspected of smuggling, and after boarding the ship for investigation, several sailors suspected of smuggling were arrested.

Whether or not the soldiers of the Qing Navy deliberately insulted the British flag is a question that only the parties can know, but in the middle of the dispute, an impulsive Qing sailor slapped Pasha Li. Pa Xiali immediately found Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang, and demanded that Ye Mingchen apologize and release him. As a result, Ye Mingchen adopted the most common delay and perfunctory method in the Manchu officialdom, and did not give any reply for more than two months, and finally at the beginning of this year, the British fleet had already sailed to the city of Guangzhou, Ye Mingchen was forced to order the release of the captured Yaluo sailors, but he categorically refused to apologize, and the British fleet began to retaliate by force on this ground, first seizing the Humen Fort, and then entering the city of Guangzhou, and sacking Ye Mingchen's Yamen, the governor of Guangzhou.

Then, the British troops took the initiative to withdraw from the city of Guangzhou, but the angry people of Guangzhou burned down the foreign companies and houses outside the city of Guangzhou, and at the same time ransacked a mail ship bound for Hong Kong, further escalating the situation. Fortunately, Wu Xiaoping was alert and knew the xenophobic attitude of the people in Guangzhou, and as soon as the British army entered the city of Guangzhou, Wu Xiaoping fled back to his hometown in Xiangshan with his wife, family, gold and silver, and was not harmed in the burning of the foreign bank. However, the goods of Tongshun Foreign Bank and more than 100,000 taels of silver, which the old Wu family has operated for many years, were robbed first and then burned, and were completely turned into ashes.

After listening to the introduction of the old family's chatter, he sighed helplessly, Wu Chaoyue symbolically greeted Wu Xiaoping and his wife's current situation, and learned that the situation of the cheap father, mother and grandmother was not bad, Wu Chaoyue was also completely relieved, arranged for someone to take the old family down to rest, and at the same time planned to take the opportunity to persuade his parents to move to Hong Kong, not to stay in the mainland and drag his own legs.

The people from his hometown were led down, but Wu Chaoyue's heart was difficult to calm down for a long time, and all he was thinking about was how to deal with the upcoming Second Opium War, and whether he could keep the Old Summer Palace? Can it stop Tsarist Russia from encroaching on Chinese land? There is also how to take advantage of the opportunity of Emperor Xianfeng to flee north to Rehe to get rid of the shackles, further expand and grow, and even take the opportunity to raise troops.

couldn't help but start thinking about the various problems that might be encountered when raising the army, Wu Chaoyue suddenly remembered an important question, when Su Shun wrote to him, in addition to telling himself to beware of the new Minister of Military Aircraft Bai Ye, he also specially instructed himself not to let Bai Ye grasp the handle about foreigners. And now that the Sino-British conflict has broken out again, those stupid and foreign factions in the Manchu court will definitely make waves again, and if they really let their political enemies seize the handle in this regard, it will be really difficult for Su Shun to protect himself.

Thinking of this, Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate, and immediately contacted Huang Sheng, and asked Huang Sheng to come forward to inform the foreigners in Hankou, and told the more than 200 foreigners who lived in Hankou to stop as much as possible, and never go to other state capitals in Hubei to preach and visit at every turn as before, and cause trouble for themselves and for them - I could still suppress these things in the past, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to suppress them in the future.

After making this arrangement, Wu Chaoyue suddenly remembered the trick he had set for Luo Bingzhang before, and couldn't help but smile secretly, "Luo Lao slippery, it was your idea that caught up with the limelight, no wonder me." Now no one can save you, whether you can avoid this trouble or even disaster depends on your own luck. ”

Probably because of the ruthlessness of the Hunan expedition, God finally did not stand on the side of the real Hunan army leader and biological mother Luo Bingzhang this time, and after a few days, Hua Shana, who had nothing to do and rarely came forward, suddenly sent someone to invite Wu Chaoyue to come over the house to negotiate, and when Wu Chaoyue, who respected Hua Shana, hurried to the governor's yamen, he just saluted after meeting, Hua Shana waved his hand and said: "Comfort pavilion, don't be so vain, sit down, there is something important, Hunan urgent, a few days ago, two foreigners suddenly appeared in Changsha City, making a storm in the city, I also heard that foreigners are related to Luo Bingzhang and Luo Futai, do you know this? ”

"Should know."

Wu Chaoyue was not obscure, and directly told Hua Shana about Luo Bingzhang borrowing a technician from him to explore the Hunan iron mine, and said that he was negligent for a while, and forgot to explain that he was not allowed to lend Luo Bingzhang a foreigner technician, and when he knew about it, Luo Bingzhang's governor Yamen official ship had already picked up the foreigner. In the end, Wu Chaoyue emphasized that he asked Luo Bingzhang to send the foreigners back to Hankou, but Luo Bingzhang did not send them back, so as to clear up the relationship.

"This Luo Ruzhai is really looking for trouble!" Hua Shana was bitter when she heard this, and patted her legs and said hatefully: "How good it is to bring the foreigners back directly, why do you have to take them to Hunan?" It's troublesome, it's troublesome, if this makes people stab in the court, he still has to walk around without eating? ”

"Flower system, will someone stab this matter into the court?" Wu Chaoyue asked kindly.

"It's hard to say, Luo Ruzhai loves to play tricks, and there are many people who have offended." Hua Shana frowned and said: "If it is a civil official below the fourth grade, it is better to say that the chapter can only be submitted to the imperial court through Luo Bingzhang's hand, and he can press it down." The military general is also easy to do, and the old man can press it down for him. If it is a civil official with more than four grades and the right to report the secret fold, then the old man and Luo Bingzhang will not be able to stop it. ”

Wu Chaoyue listened to the same pretended complaint, and hurriedly asked himself very nervously whether he would be implicated? Hua Shana waved his hand and said, "You're okay, the foreigner was picked up by Luo Bingzhang's governor Yamen official ship, and it can't be involved in you, but the old man and I ......." ”

"Don't worry, if the imperial court really wants to inquire, the juniors will immediately go up to the fold to cry out for you, proving that you didn't know from beginning to end, and this matter is all caused by the negligence of the juniors and Luo Futai." Wu Chaoyue hurriedly expressed his loyalty.

Hua Shana smiled a little and said: "Thank you for comforting the pavilion, but the old man is at most a crime of negligence, even if he carries it all, it is a great punishment of one or two years, and it will not be a big problem." ”

After smiling, Hua Shana suddenly asked, "Weiting, do you know what happened there in Guangzhou?" ”

"I know, my family's foreign store was burned, and my father sent me a letter about the specific situation that happened in Guangzhou."

Wu Chaoyue was very smart and didn't say secret words in front of the Ming people, but Hua Shana nodded with satisfaction again, and casually greeted Wu Xiaoping's safety, and then said: "Weiting, since you know what happened in Guangzhou, the old man is not verbose, this time Luo Bingzhang took the foreigner to Hunan for prospecting, and it is good that he is not known by the imperial court, once known by the imperial court, his trouble will definitely be not small." He, like you, is the old man's right-hand man, the old man can't see death without help, we have to prepare in advance and try to save Luo Futai. ”

"Please give instructions to the flower table, and the juniors will do their best."

I wish Luo Bingzhang would get out of Hunan as soon as possible, but Wu Chaoyue's face was still very beautiful. Hua Shana replied: "First, you contact Luo Bingzhang as soon as possible, and find a way to get those foreigners back with him as soon as possible, so as not to let them continue to swagger in Hunan." Second, if the imperial court really knows about this matter and issues an order to investigate, you must not go up to the fold to excuse Luo Bingzhang, on the contrary, you must also try your best to push the black pot on Luo Bingzhang! That's how you can keep him! ”

"Why?" Wu Chaoyue asked in surprise.

Hua Shana hesitated for a moment, first looked left and right, and everyone on the left and right understood, and they all withdrew from the room, and then Hua Shana whispered to Wu Chaoyue: "The current situation in the court is very complicated, Su Zhongtang's sworn enemy Bai Ye has entered the military aircraft, I won't say much about what he will do to you, you understand yourself." You and I have offended him again in the matter of casting silver yuan, and with his careful eye, he will definitely hold a grudge and wait for an opportunity to take revenge. ”

"So if you and I go to protect Luo Bingzhang, Bai Ye will inevitably think that Luo Bingzhang and us are in the same group, and we will definitely fall into the well and make every effort to rectify Luo Bingzhang."

"Don't underestimate Bai Ye, although he is not the foreman of the military aircraft, nor is he a man, but he is a flag man after all, and he is more trusted by the emperor. The current foreman Peng Yunzhang is a Han Chinese, and he has worked hard to become the chief officer, and he may not be able to suppress Bai Ye, and now he happened to catch up with the incident in Guangzhou, the court is shouting and shouting and killing foreigners everywhere, and the emperor hates foreigners even more in his heart, once Bai Ye makes up his mind to destroy Luo Bingzhang, it is very likely to do it! ”

"So in this matter, if you and I want to keep Luo Bingzhang, the only way is to deliberately isolate Luo Bingzhang, and even deliberately let Luo Bingzhang carry the black pot, so that Bai Ye feels that Luo Bingzhang and us are not in the same group, so that Luo Bingzhang will not deliberately target Luo Bingzhang, and Luo Bingzhang may turn a big thing into a small thing, and a small thing!"

After listening to Hua Shana's words, Wu Chaoyue can be regarded as a complete five-body throw, and he can be regarded as knowing what a real officialdom old fox is-saving people by using the method of pit people, Wu Chaoyue really can't think of such a trick!

Admiration is admiration, the Tao is different, Wu Chaoyue, who is determined to destroy Luo Bingzhang and eliminate hidden dangers, of course can't do it according to Hua Shana's requirements, on the contrary, he has to rack his brains more to find out how to get rid of Luo Bingzhang with Bai Ye's hand. However, after careful consideration, Wu Chaoyue found that this matter was not easy to do, first of all, if he deliberately folded Luo Bingzhang, he would inevitably focus too much on the traces, which was not conducive to his hypocrisy of caring for his colleagues. The second is that he has no connection with Bai Ye and his party, and he wants Bai Ye to know that Hua Shana's wishful thinking is as difficult as ascending to the sky, and he can't find a way to destroy the old fox Hua Shana's tricks for a long time.

God sometimes just doesn't have long eyes, just when Wu Chaoyue was worried about how to kill Luo Bingzhang without a trace, after knowing what a real officialdom old fox is, he soon understood a new truth - flag people are sometimes quite cute.

It's only been three days since the incident, and the messenger sent by Wu Chaoyue to contact Luo Bingzhang hasn't come back yet, so Hua Shana personally came to visit Wu Chaoyue's governor's yamen, and said with a wry smile as soon as they met: "Weiting, Luo Futai's incident is in big trouble, and this time he is afraid that he will really be in trouble." ”

"What's going on again?" Wu Chaoyue hurriedly asked.

"I just received an urgent report from Hunan, and those three foreigners were detained by the Hunan envoy Kuilian in Yuezhou."

Hua Shana said with a smile: "After those foreigners swaggered through the city in Changsha, Luo Bingzhang was afraid that they would cause more trouble, so he sent them back, but when the ship arrived in Yuezhou, it was detained by the Kuilian stationed there, and Luo Bingzhang sent an escort, and they were all arrested by the Kuilian as a witness. ”

"Quilian is crazy? How dare he forcibly detain the people of the governor's yamen? Wu Chaoqiang asked with surprise in his heart.

"He should have been angry with Luo Ruzhai." Hua Shana replied with a wry smile: "After the imperial court promoted him from the prefect of Yuezhou to Hunan as an envoy, Luo Ruzhai didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, under the pretext that Kuilian needed to be in charge of the army, and he didn't let Kuilian move to the provincial capital. ”

After that, Hua Shana added another sentence and said: "If nothing else, the excerpt of the impeachment of Luo Bingzhang by the Kuilian must have been sent to the capital, he is the third product has the right to fold and seal the performance, and the old man has no right to stop it, let alone know the content of his recital, so this matter, even the old man can't stop it." ”

Wu Chaoyue couldn't wait to hug the two of them from Hunan, who had never seen him, and forcibly suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, Wu Chaoyue pretended to be anxious again, and said: "This matter is very troublesome, once the foreigners go deep into the mainland, the local government has the right to detain the nearest foreigner consulate, and the detention of the people is in accordance with national law, and no one can stop it." Luo Futai offended him again, if he bit it, Luo Futai would not be able to withdraw. ”

"What's even more troublesome is that the old man can't come forward to mediate this matter." Hua Shana looked even more helpless, and said: "Luo Ruzhai deliberately excluded Kui Zhen, the old man already knew that Kui Zhen had also complained to the old man for this matter, and the old man excused himself for being too inconvenient to interfere in local affairs. If the old man came forward to speak for Luo Ruzhai, Kui Zhen would definitely think that the old man was deliberately pulling the shelf, and with his donkey ......temper, alas, the trouble would definitely be greater. ”

Shaking his head and sighing, Hua Shana cheered up a little and said: "Talking about business, Weiting, the old man is in a hurry to find you, I want you to send someone to Yuezhou to visit those three foreigners, and protect them, don't let Kui Zhen's donkey do anything stupid, last year Guangxi killed a foreigner priest, the matter has not been resolved yet, we Huguang can't make such a mistake." ”

After that, Hua Shana took out an official document with a blank name, and asked Wu Chaoyue to arrange for a foreigner-speaking person to go to Yuezhou to take care of and protect the three detained foreigners on behalf of the Yamen of the Governor of Huguang, not asking for someone from Kui Zhen, just to stop Kui Zhen from being stupid, and directly going into the mainland with a knife like the order of Xilin County, Guangxi. Then Hua Shana got up to say goodbye, and Wu Chaoyue, who respected Hua Shana, personally sent him out of the governor's yamen, and did not separate until the Yuanmen.

It was only after Hua Shana's sedan chair went away that Zhao Liewen came up and said to Wu Chaoyue: "Weiting, when I was chatting with Guo Songtao, I once heard him mention Kui Zhen, and it seems that he has a little friendship with Kui Zhen, why don't you ask Yun Xian to see if he can persuade Kui Zhen to release him first?" Otherwise, the bigger the trouble, the more trouble there will be. ”

Of course, Zhao Liewen didn't know what Hua Shana told Wu Chaoyue in private, and Wu Chaoyue, whose eyes lit up, naturally forgot Hua Shana's earnest teachings, and immediately ordered: "Okay, Huifu, you personally go and invite Mr. Yunxian to the back hall to talk and see if he can do this." ”

Zhao Liewen agreed, and immediately went to the signing room to find Guo Songtao, who had recently joined Wu Chaoyue's shogunate, but as soon as Zhao Liewen left with his front foot, Wu Chaoyue called the captain of the pro-soldier Wu Dadao to the front with his back foot, and whispered in Wu Dada's ear: "Go and prepare a thousand taels of silver." Remember, if you want cash, all the silver issued to me by the imperial court is the kind of silver that is printed by the Hubei Domain. (To be continued.) )