In winter, the days are long and the nights are short, even in early winter, the night comes early, just after dinner, the rooms of the Nanchang City Government Office have been lit with candles and oil lamps, in addition, the entire yamen is all engulfed by heavy darkness. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe darkness of the sky, but it can't compare to the twilight in the bottom of my heart, since September, the bad news, one after another, so that people feel overwhelmed.

The door creaked open, and Zeng Guofan, who was in the middle of it, did not open his eyes, but asked softly:

"Who's in?"

Under the light, the governor who supported half of the south wall of the Manchu Qing River seemed so weak that the man who had just entered the door couldn't help but sigh and feel very sad. Seeing that no one answered, Zeng Guofan raised his head and looked out the door. The man in front of him was strong and mighty, not the brothers, nephews and guard servants who often went in and out of the study, and for a while he didn't recognize who it was, but he felt familiar.

"Master Zeng, you don't know me anymore?"

The middle-aged man took a step forward.

It seems to be Sun Yufu!

Suddenly, Zeng Guofan remembered that this was the student who followed him back then, when he was defeated in Yuezhou, at that time, he thought he had died in the chaos.

How could he have come to the study alone without any notice? He rubbed his eyes, although he hadn't seen him for several years, although the lights were not bright and the figure was hazy, Zeng Guofan still recognized it:

"Renfu!"

I just shouted, and hurriedly added a sentence.

"Are you really here?"

At this moment, Zeng Guofan even thought that he had encountered his ghost.

"It's me, teacher, it's me Yufu who is here."

Sun Yufu was also excited.

"Renfu, come over and sit down next to me, let me take a good look at you."

Sun Yufu walked over and sat down on a chair in front of Zeng Guofan's table.

Zeng Guofan looked at Sun Yufuzai carefully for a long time, then squeezed his hand and said slowly.

"Renfu, over the years, I have always thought that you died in the chaos when you were defeated in Yueyang, and I am very happy to see that you are fine. Yufu, I didn't expect to see you today, now I'm relieved, where have you been in the past few years? Why don't you send me a letter. ”

As he spoke, tears rolled up on Zeng Guofan's face, Sun Yufu was one of his youngest students, and he was also the first student to follow him, unlike other people who joined the scene, Sun Yufu took more than 100 strong men from the countryside to him, and when he was finally defeated, he also lost contact.

Sun Yufu looked at the teacher who was moved by his true feelings, and couldn't say a word for a long time, but just held the dry and hot hand tightly with both hands.

Holding the student's hand, Zeng Guofan looked at Sun Yufu carefully, he has matured a lot after a few years, and the childishness on his face has faded, and he has become a man. It was then that he suddenly noticed his sideburns, and in an instant, it seemed that everything was understood. Slowly rushing away his hand, Zeng Guofan said.

"Renfu, could it be that you also took refuge in the Han thief?"

Whether it was the defeat of the army or the siege of Jiangxi, many students and staff around him defected to the Han thieves and were used by the Han thieves, but he did not expect that Sun Yufu, who was inseparable from the bandits, actually defected to the Han thieves.

"Teacher, the student is now the commander of the 29th Regiment of the Righteous Army!"

Sun Yufu did not hide anything, the reason why he came here was actually because of selfishness, as a student of Zeng Guofan, he did not want to wave troops with the teacher, and his understanding of the Hunan army made him very clear that the teacher's tens of thousands of brave training could not be the opponent of the righteous army at all, and he didn't even need a large army to enter the country, he only needed to transfer the three regiments stationed in Jiujiang to Jiangxi, which was enough to defeat Jiangxi.

"You're out now......"

Zeng Guofan's words became cold, although Zhao Liewen had also persuaded him, but he had never made up his mind, after all, as a scholar, he had his own beliefs.

Despite this, Zeng Guofan was still extremely pleased that his students could lead thousands of soldiers, and his understanding of the Righteous Army made him very clear about what the commander of this regiment meant, even if the first battalion of Xiangyong was only 500 people, while the first regiment of the Righteous Army had nearly 4,000 people, which could be called a "general".

"As a teacher, you know that sooner or later, you will become famous!"

Zeng Guofan's appreciation made Sun Yufu silent, and his understanding of the teacher made him not know how to speak.

"Renfu, why did you come to Nanchang this time? If you come to lobby as a teacher, you will be a minister of the Great Qing Kingdom who is a teacher, and you must not do anything disloyal......"

"Teacher, Yufu remembers listening to his father tell the story of the Tang Wu Revolution when he was a child, since Shang Tang can be cut down and Zhou Wu can be cut down, why can't we Han people crusade against the Manchu court that is unkind and unrighteous and cruel to the Han people?"

When he started from Jintian, he banned and burned all "heresies" except for the worship of God, including traditional Chinese Confucian classics, and burned books and temples all the way to Nanjing. He destroyed and burned books even more than the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was precisely because of this that he led the children of his hometown to defect to the teacher.

"At the beginning, the students defected to the teacher to protect our Chinese civilization from falling into the hands of cults, but the reason why today's students are willing to be pawns of the lord is to correct the orthodoxy of China.

"No, Renfu."

Zeng Guofan seemed to be suddenly injected with a burst of life, and his voice was loud and crisp,

"You don't understand, as a disciple of a famous religion, we must insist, the court treats Zeng as a mountain, and the emperor treats him as a teacher and a teacher who knows it, so can he abandon this? For the teacher, he received the great favor of the court and the emperor, how can he not fight the Han thieves bloodily, and Kuangzheng the court! ”

"Han thief, Han thief ......"

With a sneer, Sun Yufu stared at the teacher and said,

"If we are Han and thieves, then who is the teacher? Isn't the teacher Han Chinese? ”

Sun Yufu's words made Zeng Guofan stunned, he is a Han, if it weren't for the fact that he is Han, I'm afraid he would call him "Han rebel" like those Manchus, and now the student's rhetorical question made him open his mouth but couldn't speak.

"Teacher, his heart is merciful, but his actions are not advisable."

Sun Yufu lowered his voice slightly.

"Regardless of the Manchu people who brutalized my Han people, just talking about the fact that the country has been riddled with holes, rotten and decayed, what is happening now, should the teacher really turn a blind eye?"

Zeng Guofan found that his self-deception of pretending to turn a blind eye was no longer good these days, and it was falling inch by inch like the tide of the sea. He even forgot to drink tea, but picked up a dried plum from a plate next to him and chewed it slowly in his mouth, this plum was sour and astringent.

"Adults are deeply blessed by the Aixin Jueluo family, and they may not see this, but many people see it very clearly; Maybe adults have already seen it, but they must know that it is impossible to do it, and do their best to support the building that is about to collapse. However, many would rather watch it collapse. This is the reason why today, such as adults, there are many people who know about it, and there are few people who are harmonious. ”

"Yufu,"

Raising his head and looking at his former student, Zeng Guofan asked with a strong spirit.

"After reading the books of the sages for decades, I understand that knowing that it is not possible to do it is the blood nature affirmed by the sages, even if it is not done, it is commendable. Will this kind of bloody nature of being a teacher be praised by future generations? ”

Lonely loyalty, every time he sees these recorded in the history books, Zeng Guofan will be extremely emotional, at least his lonely loyalty can always be praised by future generations!

Sun Yufu smiled faintly:

"Teacher, in fact, you already know the answer, you know that it cannot be done, although the sage has affirmed it, but it is not a wise saying, and this kind of blood nature will not necessarily be praised by future generations. For example, the loyal king, the rebel of the country of Qin, and the person who is a minister, although it is bloody, is not desirable. And the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who dominated China for two hundred years with a foreign race, mutilated my people, weakened my body, destroyed my soul, and went through all kinds of crimes, the crimes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty can be described as difficult to write. However, the teacher is bent on being a lonely minister of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the blood of the teacher will not only be not praised, but may even be despised! ”

"That being the case, why did you lead the children of your hometown to join as a teacher in the first place!"

Sun Yufu's words made Zeng Guofan ask in annoyance.

"The students followed their mentor because they knew that long hair would never succeed, firstly, to protect my name, and secondly, because the students also had other expectations."

"Looking forward to it?"

Zeng Guofan asked in surprise,

"What to expect?"

"What the students are looking forward to is what many people of insight are looking forward to the teacher at the beginning, that is, I hope that the teacher will take the opportunity of the crusade against the long hair to train a strong Han family soldiers, first cut off the long hair, then overthrow the Manchu, and finally rebuild the capital of Yao, the soil of Shun, and the seal of Yu on the land of my Shenzhou. Because of this, students will join their teachers and have nothing to do with Manchu. ”

Zeng Guofan couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, what surprised him was not the words themselves. He was shocked that Sun Yufu was also a son of a scholar, five generations of his family were in the imperial court, and he was favored by the emperor, not inferior to him, but people like this actually had this strong desire to recover the rivers and mountains of the Han family a few years ago, and for the realization of this wish, at the same time, this wish was pressed deeply. Looking at the student in front of him, Zeng Guofan secretly asked himself in his heart: Could it be that the Manchu court has really lost the hearts of the people, and his choice is really wrong?

"When a student votes for his teacher, what he thinks and thinks has no heart to correct the court, and what he does is only for him to correct my China. Later, after the student Yu Yueyang was captured by the lord, he resolutely voted for the lord, precisely because the lord was completely different from the "bandits", and also different from the teacher, the lord did only to correct the orthodoxy of China, how dare the students not serve the lord? ”

After saying this, Sun Yufu looked at Zeng Guofan and said in an accentuated tone.

"Teacher, do you have to make mistakes again and again, and make mistakes for life?"

Just when Sun Yufu's words fell, the door of the study was suddenly opened, and it was Zeng Guoquan who walked in, he didn't even see the people in the room, he just said in horror.

"Big brother, something big happened, Sichuan, Sichuan has dropped ......"

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What did Zeng Guofan say? This role is to stay, and it will be useful in the future......