"What Zhong Aiqing said gave me a lot of inspiration! Back to the two issues I just mentioned. Feng Yunshan opened his mouth and said: "Regarding the impeachment of the righteous king Shi Dakai, based on the opinions of Zhong Aiqing just now, I also think it is very inappropriate. I decided to ignore the impeached ministers first, let them retreat, and if they continue to impeach, I will personally summon them to refute them in person! At the same time, he sent a telegram to praise the righteous king, so that the righteous king and the soldiers in front of him could rest assured.

As for the newly occupied territory, because it is too big and too big, I found that the Aiqing did not have better means of governance and development. However, Cheng Aiqing's suggestion was very sincere, and now during this period, more and more newly incorporated empires are too large to solve the problem of developing and defending new territories by immigrants alone. As Cheng Aiqing said, spend a lot of effort to build a railway, and other aspects will guard this territory at the minimum cost, and hand it over to the future world and time to develop slowly, in my opinion, this method may be the most suitable solution for the current situation! ”

Everyone looked at Cheng Hengsheng with envy, this guy was only thinking about building the railway, but he didn't expect to meet His Majesty's mind this time, and they all praised: "Your Majesty is wise!" ”

Feng Yunshan saw that Zuo Zongtang seemed to be a little speechless, so he asked, "What else can't Zuo Aiqing say, why do you do this cowardly?" ”

Zuo Zongtang had no choice but to stand up and report: "Your Majesty, Weichen doesn't know whether to talk about it or not, since His Majesty asked, Weichen didn't dare to hide it and said it directly." This is just Wei Chen's personal speculation, and I don't know whether it is right or wrong, because the matter involves the righteous king, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive Wei Chen's great disrespect to the righteous king. ”

Feng Yunshan was a little strange, and he didn't think much about it, so he laughed and said, "Zuo Aiqing doesn't think that I am the faint king of all dynasties?" If you have something to say boldly, even if you are an ordinary minister, I will not blame it, let alone you Zuo Aiqing! ”

When Zuo Zongtang heard this, a stream of heat flowed in his chest, his nose was sore, and he knelt on the ground and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace and trust!" Weichen's death is hard to report. Regarding the fact that the righteous king ordered the army of the Chinese empire and the coerced subordinate army to burn and loot at will, slaughter and loot the city, some ministers in the court thought that the righteous king's move was unkind, and Weichen had some doubts about this! ”

"Oh!" Feng Yunshan asked, "Aiqing thinks that the righteous king has always been benevolent and loves the people, and will not condone those armies to slaughter the city?"

"Definitely! On the contrary, Your Majesty, Wei Chen thinks that the massacre of the city by the army of the Western Expedition must be true. Moreover, it is likely that it was deliberately ordered by the righteous king! Zuo Zongtang gritted his teeth and said a shocking sentence.

"Nonsense!" Luo Outline was the first to jump out, and when he heard Zuo Zongtang say that the righteous king was not, he was anxious, changed his respect for Zuo Zongtang, and accused him in public: "Chief of General Staff Zuo, Ping Su Luo has always respected you as a person, but today you said that the righteous king is not, Luo may have to look down on you a few points!" How could a righteous king deliberately set fire to his troops? You're slandering! ”

However, Zeng Guanlan and Wu Ruxiao frowned, looked at Zuo Zongtang thoughtfully, and did not have much objection in it.

Feng Yunshan knew that Zuo Zongtang would not talk nonsense for no reason, not to mention that the object involved was still the righteous king Shi Dakai, so he asked: "Zuo Aiqing has something to say quickly!" Why do you infer such a righteous king? ”

"Your Majesty, and the King of Faithfulness, Wechen is not saying that the King of Righteousness is not. I am not ready to impeach the righteous king, but on the contrary, I want to explain his hardships to the righteous king! Zuo Zongtang said with a wry smile: "As Wei Chen said earlier, first, King Yi is to make room for the future immigrants of the Chinese Empire to live in the local area, and slaughter the locals; secondly, it is also to reward the armies of those coercive countries, boost morale, and by the way, establish authority, so that the other party can understand the strength and skill of the Chinese Empire; Third, it is also to collect wealth, gather logistics materials for war, etc., we all know that the war materials required by hundreds of thousands of troops in the Western Expedition are a huge astronomical amount, and these, the righteous king has never reached out to the imperial court to ask for anything, even if he asks those coerced countries to provide the required material supplies, it is impossible to meet all of them. How did such a big deficit come about, of course, it was inevitable that it would have to be directly requisitioned from some places that had been captured. This is what is needed to guarantee victory in the war. Unless you want to bury all the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Western Expedition there, you have to take this kind of local requisition, or even slaughter the city!

Another point that Wechen wanted to say, which was also Wechen's speculation, was that King Yi probably deliberately ordered the arson, in order to impeach him by a bunch of pedantic ministers in the court. And this purpose of King Yi is not for anything else, but only for self-preservation, in order to prevent the imperial court from transferring him back to Shengjing and delaying the great cause of the Western Expedition! Weichen dared to say, Your Majesty, the righteous king is pouring some dirty water on himself, polluting himself, and eliminating the vigilance of the court. After all, now King Yi is a veritable king of the northwest, and it is reasonable for the court to be uneasy about him, and his self-defilement will make the local people hate him, even if he wants to do anything, it is unpopular, unable to get local support, which is equivalent to self-defeat. Prove His Majesty's loyalty! Your Majesty, the righteous king is really a rare virtuous minister of Your Majesty! ”

After listening to Zuo Zongtang's words, Feng Yunshan fell into deep thought!

He didn't expect that there were so many doorways in between. Because he has been the emperor for a long time, he has completely forgotten that the people below have so many worries about doing things. Hearing that Shi Dakai did not hesitate to defile himself for the sake of the Western Expedition, and even deliberately asked people to impeach him, the purpose was not to let himself be wary of him, which made Feng Yunshan very touched.

Thinking of this, he said directly: "Zuo Aiqing spoke up righteously and let me know a lot of things. Leave it at all about the righteous king! In view of the immortal exploits of the righteous king Shi Dakai in leading the army of the Western Expedition, the territory of the Chinese Empire has reached tens of millions of square kilometers, which is comparable to the land area of an entire Europe. In the name of the emperor of the Chinese Empire, I added Shi Dakai as the ****, the head of the kings, and monopolized the military and political power of the Western Expedition, but I am only responsible for it! In addition, the vassal states that sent coerced troops to the west will be rewarded according to their merits in the westward expedition! After the righteous king received my reward, he naturally understood what I meant. Let him guard the western frontier with peace of mind and stabilize our vast empire!

As for the massacre and impeachment, there is no need to mention it, everyone will naturally understand what I mean! ”