Zuo Zongtang wrote down Feng Yunshan's message, and then said: "Your Majesty, there is also bad news, it is about Prince Gong of the Qing Demon. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Feng Yunshan was puzzled: "Didn't this fang have fled the night before we broke through Beijing City?" Then he disappeared. ”

"Your Majesty, this person is a treacherous person, but he did not flee to Rehe, but passed through Zhangjiakou and collected thousands of Chahar Mongol cavalry there under his tent, plus the Qing soldiers he took with him and gathered all the way, there were nearly 10,000 cavalry forces. Then, he rushed to Suiyuan, Shanxi, collected the 4,000 Mongolian banner soldiers stationed there, and recruited thousands of Manchu and Mongolian banner soldiers with the wealth he took away, forming a cavalry team of nearly 20,000. After learning of Xianfeng's death on the third day, he ascended the throne and became the emperor in Suiyuan, and the year name returned to the Yuan. ”

"What?" Feng Yunshan was taken aback, he couldn't imagine that this famous Gong Lao Liu in history would be so bold and proclaim himself emperor directly after Xianfeng's death, it seems that this young man is much more impulsive, and he is completely different from the old and steady Gong Lao Liu. In any case, he must not be allowed to disrupt the process of unifying the country.

Unexpectedly, after occupying the city of Beijing, these Manchu and Mongolian nobles still have so many troops in the surrounding areas of Beijing, and it is time to clean them up. Now, the situation has been reversed, and it has become an official government, and the Manchu Qing are slowly falling into a thief army! Feng Yunshan just felt that the troops at hand were a little tight. The only way to do this was to send an elite army, ride on a war horse, and pursue the Qing army that had lost its fighting spirit everywhere, and Feng Yunshan understood that the Qing army must be completely defeated as soon as possible. If it is delayed for a while, after those Manchurian nobles are stabilized, it will be even more difficult to deal with them.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan said directly to Zuo Zongtang: "This Yixuan must be solved as soon as possible. Either destroy him, or drive him to Rehe and let him fight with the baby emperor. Looking at his plans, it seems that he wants to flee to the northwest, where the Manchu forces are still strong, and they must try to stop him. Ji Gao, what can you do? ”

"Your Majesty, judging from the traces of this person's escape from Beijing City, it is obvious that he is planning to take advantage of the chaos to stand on his own, and he should have wanted to flee to the northwest. Weichen analyzed that he couldn't imagine that Xianfeng would die suddenly. Zuo Zongtang analyzed: "Therefore, as soon as this Yixun learned of Xianfeng's death, he immediately ascended the throne and hurriedly established himself as the emperor, the purpose of which must be to seize the throne of the Manchu Qing Dynasty." It's better to be, Your Majesty, Weichen has a plan. ”

Feng Yunshan said: "What is the strategy, Ji Gao will come quickly." ”

"Your Majesty, the news from the other side of Rehe is that Xianfeng's Concubine Yi, a person named Yehenala Xingzhen, gave birth to the prince Zaichun on the way to Rehe, and succeeded Xianfeng as the new emperor. But according to the report, this concubine named Xingzhen was not in Rehe, and the Qing demon instead sealed a Cao family of the Han Army Banner as a concubine to take care of Zaichun. After Zuo Zongtang explained the origin of the matter, he said directly: "Your Majesty, it is better for us to send a small work to spread the news everywhere, saying that Xianfeng has no descendants, but that the auxiliary ministers of the Qing Demon, such as Duanhua and Sushun, privately found a baby, pretended to be the son of Xianfeng, and helped him ascend the throne. The purpose is that the five of their auxiliary ministers will control the government, especially the two brothers Duanhua and Sushun, and prepare to compile the throne! ”

Feng Yunshan nodded, he had already heard Zuo Zongtang's intentions.

As long as this news reaches the ears of Yixun, who is still in Suiyuan, Weichen guesses that no matter whether this news is true or not, Yixun will take it as true. Because this news is beneficial to him, if Xianfeng has no queen, according to the blood relationship, his ascension to the throne is justified, and he can use this as an excuse to kill these five auxiliary ministers and become the de facto Qing Demon Chieftain. And this Duanhua, Su Shun and others will definitely prevent them from seizing the throne. In this way, as soon as the two forces of the Qing Demon fight, if our empire sends troops, it can weaken their strength, and when they fight, the empire will organize forces and annihilate them in one fell swoop. ”

"Not bad!" Feng Yunshan looked at Zuo Zongtang with appreciation, the literati are insidious, but if they are used for their own purposes and are insidious to the enemy, then they are not called insidious, but scheming! Zuo Zongtang is obviously good at this.

Because Fan Ruzeng, the director of the Department of Special Affairs, was not in Zhili, Feng Yunshan said: "This matter will be arranged by you Ji Gao." Try to drive all the forces of the Qing demons to Liaodong, gather the Manchus together, and wait for the empire to unify the Guannei first, free up their hands, and then enter the army outside the Guan, and completely destroy its foundation in one fell swoop! ”

Zuo Zongtang hurriedly responded.

"What else?" Feng Yunshan saw that Zuo Zongtang was a little hesitant, so he asked.

"Your Majesty, the Yan Shenggong Mansion in Qufu, Shandong sent someone to send a secret chapter, and the seventy-fourth generation of the 'Yan Shenggong' Kong Fanhao wrote a letter in his own hand, saying that he and Peng Yunzhang, the Minister of Military Aircraft of the Qing Demon and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, are sons and daughters, and they are close friends with Shandong Governor Chong'en, who can come forward for the empire and persuade the two to surrender. Moreover, Yan Shenggong also specially explained that more than half of the prefects and counties at all levels in Shandong were born as scholars, and he was the son of a saint, and after he became a saint, he had the obligation and ability to let the officials from these places who were born as scholars return to the empire, so that they could abandon the darkness and turn to the light. I also hope that His Majesty will continue to canonize him as the hereditary 'Yan Shenggong', kneel down to the north and bow down, and be grateful. Zuo Zongtang looked at Feng Yunshan's face with some concern, he faintly heard that when Feng Yunshan was still a holy king, he looked down on this "Yan Shenggong", thinking that he was playing the sign of the Confucian saint and doing the things that the wall grass was like a thief.

However, Zuo Zongtang himself, as a scholar, still attaches great importance to this hereditary Yan Shenggong, after all, after being a saint, he has continued this title since the Song Dynasty, even if it was sealed by the Manchu court, he couldn't ignore it.

When Feng Yunshan heard Zuo Zongtang talk about Yan Shenggong, he frowned, he really didn't have a big interest in this bullshit Yan Shenggong.

To put it bluntly, the so-called Yan Shenggong is just relying on the emperors of all dynasties to borrow the reputation of his ancestor Confucian Sage and regard himself as orthodox. And these people of the Confucian family actually see it more thoroughly than outsiders. They knew that the emperors of the past dynasties canonized them as the Holy Princes of Yan, but they just let them lead the world's scholars to kowtow to the emperor. It's a matter of taking advantage of each other.

However, despite this, Feng Yunshan still couldn't get used to the behavior of these saints! Not to mention that the previous Jin and Mengyuan were killed in Shandong, the descendants of the Confucian sage can eat the Yulu and rewards of the Southern Song Dynasty, Pseudo-Qi, Dajin and Mengyuan at the same time, and when Kublai Khan killed the Central Plains, he resolutely bet on the treasure and led the people to join the Yuan army to clean up the Han "anti-thieves".

Then when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, it was even more flattering and ugly, and on the second day of Shunzhi's accession to the throne, he dedicated a letter to the ministers, and took the lead in shaving his head and shaving his hair, which is really a pity.

What Feng Yunshan knew was that in later generations, even in the era when democratic ideas were in full swing, this Yan Shenggong, for his own hereditary title, openly persuaded Yuan Shikai, who was still the president at the time, to ascend the throne as soon as possible, support him as emperor, and when Zhang Xun was restored and Wang's puppet regime was established, he went to Chaohe as soon as possible, the purpose was just for his own title.

Feng Yunshan is disgusted by this kind of tumbler who ignores the general interests of the country and the nation, but consumes the entire nation's reverence for his ancestors and only cares about his own selfish interests.

However, this time it was in my favor. He couldn't help but be embarrassed.

Zuo Zongtang saw that Feng Yunshan was embarrassed, so he stopped mentioning the matter, diverted the topic, and reported: "Your Majesty, there is one more matter." There are some peasant forces called 'Lianzhuang Society' in various parts of Henan, similar to local village warriors, but there are many of them, if they are not controlled, they are afraid that they will be used by the remaining Qing demon forces and cause trouble. In the area of Yanzhou Mansion in Jining in the southeast of Shandong, the area of Yingzhou Mansion and Fengyang Mansion in the north of Anman, the Guide Mansion in Henan, and the Xuzhou Mansion in Xusu, the Huanghuai area began to make a large-scale twisting army. It is also growing in scale, much more powerful than in the previous two years. There has been a situation where the power of the local regimental training leader and the leader of the twisting army is more than the Qing demon army! ”

Hearing Zuo Zongtang's words, Feng Yunshan's eyes lit up, and he thought of a way to solve both the Yan Shenggong and the local regimental training that did not listen to the call. However, the less people know about this matter, the better, Feng Yunshan didn't want to tell Zuo Zongtang that he was going to cooperate with this Yan Shenggong first, and when he was done using it, he would arrange for his henchmen to lead the original Saint King Palace guards to deal with it.

Feng Yunshan said to Zuo Zongtang: "Ji Gao, these twisted armies, are they willing to surrender to the empire?" Feng Yunshan remembered that in history, there was a leader of the Twist Army named Zhang Lexing, who accepted the reward of the Taiping Army, nominally defected to the Taiping Army, and fought against the Qing Demon together. Therefore, he wondered why these twisters did not hand him a letter of refuge.

"Your Majesty, maybe my captive army has been operating in the south and is not taken seriously by them. And now I have captured the city of Beijing, destroyed the Qing demon, and the momentum is great, but the time is a little shorter, and after a while, I believe that it will definitely send people to return to Shun! ”

Zuo Zongtang's answer, Feng Yunshan also thought deeply, thinking of the headache wallgrass, he asked again: "Ji Gao, now by my side, you can be regarded as a serious scholar." What do you think I should do with the Yan Sheng Gong clan? ”

Zuo Zongtang hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that if the empire is newly established and His Majesty will soon ascend the throne, it is better to appease him first and take it for his own use, and bring the empire to rule and stabilize, and then whatever he wants, His Majesty can decide in a word!" However, Weichen still feels that he is a false name, what about rewarding him? It will be beneficial to the empire. ”

Feng Yunshan understood what Zuo Zongtang meant, that is, to agree to his request first, and when his foundation was stable, it would not be too late to clean up. Then he said: "It's okay! As you wished, you replied to Thaksin on my behalf, and asked him to submit most of the state capitals of Shandong to the Holy Kingdom within one month. As long as he can persuade the governor of Shandong, Chong'en, and the demon head Peng Yunzhang, I will give him his request! ”

Zuo Zongtang was overjoyed when he saw Feng Yunshan accept his suggestion, he was a scholar, although he was Feng Yunshan's courtier, he still hoped that Feng Yunshan could give Sage Kong a safe placement in the future. Hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your success!" ”

Feng Yunshan couldn't help but feel a little unhappy when he saw him like this, and he even felt a little displeased with the Holy Father of Nayan. It seems that this Yan Shenggong has a lot of energy, not only trying to bargain with himself, but also entrusting someone to Zuo Zongtang in these two days, it is indeed a thousand-year-old family with a deep foundation.

It seems that you should be more cautious in your own calculations.

Thinking of using this Yan Sheng Gong to recover Shandong in name only, and then using Yan Sheng Gong as an excuse to dispose of those Twist Army volunteers, Feng Yunshan suddenly felt a little insidious, and couldn't help but shake his head self-deprecatingly, presumably the people in the upper positions are like this, otherwise, there will be no saying that the high place is unbearable.